Helensburgh, Australia
Glowworm Tunnel
An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.
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Helensburgh, Australia
An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.
Australia
An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.
Marblehead, Massachusetts
This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A former medieval fortress, now home to Edinburgh Napier University, contains a rather risqué work of art.
Catcliffe, England
The oldest surviving glass furnace cone in Western Europe.
Tombstone, Arizona
An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.
Whiston, England
In England, a barn-turned-wedding venue dates back to the 13th century.
Miskolc, Hungary
This castle played host to the largest great hall found in medieval Central Europe.
Casa Grande, Arizona
An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.
Lorton, Virginia
The former home of the man whose radical ideas changed the nation.
Sheffield, England
In the ancient Woolley Woods, an art project promises access to new worlds.
Phoenix, Arizona
The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.
Rotherham, England
This oddly placed 15th-century church is one of only six bridge chapels left in England.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.
Ayr, Scotland
These unique weather vanes honor Scotland's most famous bard and decorate this walkway.
San Martino della Battaglia, Italy
The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.
Sirmione, Italy
One of the most well-preserved castles in Italy also contains a rare medieval example of a port fortification.
Sirmione, Italy
On the shores of Lake Garda, the ruins of a Roman villa that allegedly belonged to the poet Catullus.
Gardone Riviera, Italy
A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.
Turkmenistan
A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.
Durham, England
An abandoned tower once used to study the cosmos hides within a thicket of greenery.
Mpulungu, Zambia
Now abandoned, this stone church was part of the missionary efforts that initiated the Christianization of Zambia.
Bethel, New York
The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.
Madrid, Spain
Part of the medieval watchtower is displayed in an otherwise ordinary parking garage.